Self-guided walking tour

Florence Walking Tour: Santa Croce and Florence’s Quieter Corners (about 1.5 hours, 6 stops)

6 stops in walking order through Florence, from Basilica di Santa Croce to Cimitero degli inglesi: 3.0 km on foot, about 35 min of walking, 1 h 20 min in total with the story and a look around at each stop. Walking times come from the routed walking path, not a straight line. It is the route of “Santa Croce and Florence’s Quieter Corners”, a ready-made tour in the Guided Tours app.

Total: 1 h 20 min
Distance: 3.0 km
Walking: 35 min
Stops: 6

The stops, in walking order

Basilica di Santa Croce
Santa Croce is a Franciscan basilica dedicated to the True Cross and associated with Arnolfo di Cambio.
4 min walk · 320 m
Piazza di Santa Croce
A broad Florentine square dominated by its basilica, the burial place of Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, and many other prominent Italians.
6 min walk · 550 m
Santa Margherita dei Cerchi
A Catholic church devoted to Saint Margaret, with Romanesque architecture and a long connection to the Donati and Portinari families.
4 min walk · 360 m
Biblioteca delle Oblate
A public library housed in Florence’s historic Oblate complex near Piazza Duomo.
9 min walk · 790 m
Mercato di Sant'Ambrogio
A market hall in Piazza Ghiberti, designed by Giuseppe Mengoni and opened in 1873.
11 min walk · 970 m
Cimitero degli inglesi
The English Cemetery is an oval Evangelical burial ground shaped by Carlo Reishammer and Giuseppe Poggi, with tombs belonging to Protestant communities from Britain, America, and elsewhere.